Word: defiant
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...standard patch-up of newsreel clips and familiar speeches, could fail to be moving and dramatic, for he was one of the few consciously theatrical performers in the history of democratic government. His grave and measured voice, somehow made even more sonorous by his lisp, and his majestic, defiant prose gave each of his countrymen a sense of historic purpose and helped keep alive a reassuring belief in the possibility of individual heroism throughout the mass slaughter of World War II. To see a film clip of, say, Neville Chamberlain is to see a man who was swept along...
Having proved his point, Hoover concluded by condemning the Negro press generally for "its lack of verse structure and grammar and its insolently offensive and defiant manner." To remedy the situation, he urged immediate passage of a national anti-sedition law. In 1919 people took him seriously, and Congress nearly complied. We have come a long way since then. This January President Johnson can commemorate our progress by "granting" Mr. Hoover a retirement long overdue and fully earned...
...with rain, plastered with mud, a look of utter rapture on his upturned face. Of Russia's Elvira Ozolina, crushed by her defeat in the women's javelin, rushing wildly into a hairdresser's to have her head shaved in shame. Of South Korea's defiant Dong Kih Choh, disqualified in his flyweight boxing preliminary, sitting angrily in his corner for 50 minutes while officials pleaded with him to leave the ring. And of the Hungarian water poloist who lost his trunks while the whole of Japan watched...
...friend of Shelley's at Eton, and recalls how the fledgling poet, inspired by Homer's account of heroic single combats before Troy, took on a young baronet named Sir Thomas Styles in a fist fight. "Shelley stalked round the ring and spouted one of the defiant addresses usual with Homer's heroes: the young poet, being a first-rate classical scholar, actually delivered the speech in the original Greek." But stubby young Sir Thomas delivered "a heavy slogger" to Shelley's middle, and the poet turned tail and ran. Not many years later, Gronow reports...
...Defiant to the end, Maddox strapped a snub-nosed pistol to his side, rushed up to the door when Negroes appeared. When a U.S. district court ordered him to show cause why he should not be cited for contempt, Maddox caved in and closed the Pickrick. "The President, the Congress and the Communists have closed my business and ended my childhood dream," he said. "Not me. They...